Consider your ways!
(Haggai 1:5)
Life… it’s full of new beginnings! Unlike yesterday, today is the beginning of a new year. Who knows what this year will bring each family? God, the author and finisher of our faith does!
I love a new year. I like new starts. Maybe that’s why I get itchy feet and don’t mind moving regularly, I don’t know but I love fresh beginnings. Each new year reminds me of a time way back, before the history books began, even before Creation – to when Christ was.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:1-2
I love my husband and my children. I love my dad. I love my friends. However, they too, like me, are flesh and blood. I do not know for how long I will toil upon the earth nor how long my loved one will either. I cannot trust in them for everything- for my safety, provision, joy, happiness nor salvation. But I can trust in Jesus… who was the Word and was with God and was God.
God has a plan, a purpose for every single life. Moses, John the Baptist and the Apostle Paul were no doubt men of God but were they exceptions? God gave them specific missions. But are we not sent from God also? Do we not have a message to share? Am I doing what He wants me to do each day? Am I living with a sense of purpose? Am I living intentionally?
How To Find Purpose
There have been countless books with with much pop psychology for eager persons to devour…but they make much out of something quite simple… that which may not be easy (because we so often live by the flesh) but simple. I will find my work, my mission, my purpose, by living in obedience and submission to the Father! He does the preparing of me… He will lead me into that purpose in the right time. My duty is to keep obedient to Him and submit every part of my life to Him. He requires me to act justly, to love mercy and kindness and to walk in constant, sweet fellowship with Himself.
Do I know what my purpose is? Have I set my goals and plans for 2011 according to His ways, to His plan?
Happy 2011 Susan. 🙂
I am sitting here this morning thinking back over 2010 – its ups and downs, successes and failures – and looking forward to 2011. Wondering what it will hold for my family? God knows – how wonderful. God’s purpose for me this year? Well, I have a few ideas of what God wants of me this year – but who knows what the twists in the road will be. I am greatful I can trust God for the adventure that lays ahead – for His provision and His presence and His guidance and His purpose. Wonderful.
xo
Knowing that we are the Lord’s, that He does all things well and for the good of his people, is such a comfort and encouragement as we laucn into unchartered waters. Happy 2011 with many blessings, Susan.
Hello Our Susan, and Sweetie Amy, and dear Ruby!
One of the most beautiful things I have ever, ever learned, is that He is Sovereign. So whatever is in store for 2011, is for His glory, and He will direct my paths on the good days, on the days I have to grit my teeth, on the days I want to weep, on the days I want to sing..
Happy New Year to you, my sisters in Christ!
xxx